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Paul Clyne

Copernicus

The dethronement of the Earth from the centreof the universe came in 1543on a death bed, by one seventy year old man.

His first occultation in Bolognaprecognized the taste for higher things.Even then it was known he would shinebrighter than Aldebaran.

Greek, medicine, mathematics, theology, astronomy...the disciplines racked up, crumbled underits student’s perpetual thirst, that need to know.Here was an academic who ate establishments wholeas Krakow, Padua, and Ferrara will testify.Get this lucrative sideline: he translated into Latinthe verses of Theophylactus, for his maternal uncle,on nothing more than a whim.